HB886 has been engrossed, which means it has passed the House of Delegates and will move on to the Senate for consideration and action. The original bill has been amended with a substitute that we helped craft. Basically the substitute moves some of the language around so the proper things are ... [More]

So. Yesterday was the big symposium for proposed Postsecondary Institution Ratings System (PIRS). I think there were 18 talking heads speaking for 15 minutes each with about two hours total of questions and occasional answers. The live blog coverage is good enough that I am not going to try and summ... [More]

As we move closer to next week's day of fun and a webex of talking heads, more folks have been writing about ratings.
Bob Shireman writes here.
David Bergeron writes here.
Bob Morse writes here with a new analysis of graduation rates of wealthy students. He makes the point that he has something that... [More]

The Technical Symposium for the Postsecondary Institution Rating System (PIRS) has been rescheduled to February 6 because of the winter storm this week. One of my fellow presenters, Robert Kelchen has a blog, Kelchen on Education, where he asks the question, “Is the Term “College R... [More]

This is just a quick update on HB 886 which was introduced a couple weeks in the General Assembly. As of yet, nothing has changed about it, but we are meeting with the patron on Monday to clarify his intent with the bill. The way I interpret the bill, I don't see any real problems with it, but ... [More]

...full of sound and fury, but signifying nothing?
This was a big week for higher ed news. We had the Education Datapalooza on Wednesday and the Presidential Summit with College presidents on Thursday. Tuesday morning we had the announcement that the negotiated budget included a requirement th... [More]

Monday afternoon I will be updating the Council’s TJ21 Committee on Fall 2013 enrollment. The text of that update follows. It differs from the item in the agenda book only through the inclusion of a paragraph regarding the community college enrollments as they locked their fall headcount... [More]

Since I did not write blog posts the last couple of weeks, there is a little pressure with this being the first post of the New Year as it might be expected to set the tone for the rest of the year. Then it occurred to me that I don’t usually pay much attention to New Year’s Eve and Day.... [More]

It has been kind of a rough week. There were a number of unplanned tasks thrown my way, and while they were fun and worth doing, they were unplanned. On the other side of fun we disappeared from the Internet. Utterly and completely, we just disappeared. Something happened and we don’t really k... [More]

What would I major in today? What would I tell someone else?
The last few weeks I have been thinking about choices of majors and degrees. This was particularly true last weekend after going through a number of video blogs about college being a bad choice, and certain majors being worse choices.
I do... [More]